While in the game I continue to crash back to desk top - what is weird however is that the game just halts in mid strid until I double click on the window icon at the bottom of my screen.
this could be any number of things, so we're going to need more data. i can tell you that if you're running onboard graphics, this is fairly common. but so much depends on your system specs and what you're running in software and hardware, that all i can do is give you some generalized help.

1. go to www.blackviper.com and find their recommended list of services you shld run, might want to run, and shldnt run. kill as much of that background junk as you can get away with. this is particularly true if you're running onboard graphics.

2. turn off anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering for your vid card drivers and in the game.

3. adjust your agp aperture (in bios) upwards by one notch and try the game again. if your vid card is a pci card, turn up the pci texture memory to maximum.

4. turn off as many background tasks as you can. turn off any programs you're running that you can afford to. along with this, tweak your startup to NOT run whatever you can get away with not running when your computer boots up.

these are just some simple things that can help keep your system from crashing as much.

K.